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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office has charged Michael Shane Blackwell Jr with Homicide by Child Abuse in relation to the ongoing investigation of the death of a seven week old child that occurred on December 26, 2022 at 02:48 PM. According to Sheriff’s Office, investigators determined that the seven week old victim, Theodore “Theo” Sage Raynor, suffered child abuse or […]
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Danny Singleton can shed the title of Oconee Probate Judge-elect when he takes the oath of office in an Oconee County Courthouse ceremony. After having been elected unopposed in November, Singleton retired as a long-time Seneca municipal judge, to prepare himself for the variety of duties required of a county probate judge, headquartered in the county office complex on Walhalla’s […]
Read moreCall it Oconee In Sound or the Year in Review, whatever preference you might have. It is an approximate 25-minute, concise review of the important news happenings across WGOG land for the year. And boy, oh boy, there were happenings — some bad, some good. And from your vantage point we hope 2022 was kind. Sadly, it was not for […]
Read moreMatthew Durham, the suspended Oconee County councilman, has published misgivings about the county government’s relationship with the separate body politic Joint Regional Sewer Authority. In a newsletter, Durham comments: “I’m of the belief that the county needs to begin to separate ourselves from the toxic OJRSA relationship. I recently had a commercial developer tell me that his firm was hesitant […]
Read moreWalhalla, SC– Claude Lewis Dickson, 71, husband of Wanda Rutledge Dickson, of Walhalla, passed away on Tuesday, December 27, 2022, at his home. A native of Oconee County, Mr. Dickson was the son of the late Vernon Leon and Edna Ball Dickson. He retired from industrial maintenance at Koyo and was a deacon at Rocky Knoll Baptist Church. […]
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The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a seven week old infant that occurred on December 26, 2022 at 2:48 PM. (Update: Coroner Addis identifies the deceased as Theodore “Theo” Sage Raynor, death to blunt force head trauma, and he classifies Theo’s death as homicide). Deputies from the Uniform Patrol Bureau responded to an address […]
Read moreSeneca’s Bill Sandifer, chairman of the state’s Labor, Commerce, and Industry Committee, hails the announcements this month that electric vehicle and battery manufacturers are setting up in South Carolina. Redwood Materials is committing $3.5 billion in the Low Country; Envision AESC, a Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, announced a battery cell giga-factory in Florence County, to create more than […]
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Support has been pouring in for an elderly couple and their two grandchildren made homeless Christmas Eve when fire destroyed their home in the Gumlog community of Franklin County, Georgia. The blaze broke out Saturday morning at the home of David and Kaye Gearin on Buttercup Lane in the Gumlog Community. According to Clayton Bryant, the Franklin County Coroner on […]
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Unity in the community is being stressed this week at Clemson with a celebration of Kwanzaa. The Clemson Area African American Museum and Seneca City Museums co-sponsor events through tomorrow. Today, at 4 and 6 pm, “Invented Before You Were Born” film screening and drum circle in the auditorium at 214 Butler Street, Clemson.
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Visitors from South Georgia spent part of their Christmas taking in a spectacular spot at an Oconee landmark–Issaqueena Falls. Their pictures showed an even more spectacular view, as the falls was covered in ice cycles.
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